Floriece Love was born in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1920. Following her husband's retirement from the Air Force, she moved with her family to a farm in Mississipi in 1962 and taught in the public schools during the early years of integration. Social changes and her husband's ill health precipitated a move to Oxford, Mississippi where she obtained a master's degree in theater arts from the University of Mississippi. Following her husband's death she moved to Fort Myers, Florida and was a professor of speech and communication at Edison Communnity College for a period of ten years. She is now retired and currently resides in her home on the banks of the Orange River in Fort Myers, Florida.